news & features

• ‘Swimming upstream’:
  Bay Area Jewish Republicans may not change many votes
  but they like

• Edward Zelinsky, philanthropist, history buff, museum owner

• Herbert Solomon, Stanford professor with ‘rich Jewish life’

• Philanthropist, activist, marrow recipient Alan Snyder, 61

• Rebecca Feiler, student activist, ‘tenacious with a capital T,’ 22

• Shorts: U.S.

• Strong rains cast light on Confederate Jewish cemetery

• Dialogue doesn’t undo Presbyterian divestment threat

• Oklahoma Senate race shaping up as an interesting one for Jews

• Shorts: Mideast

• Assassination in Damascus hints at Israel-Arab effort

• Prayer returns to Sarajevo synagogue

• Could Israel destroy Iranian nukes?

• In presidential election, every ballot counts — even from Israel

• Shorts: Bay Area

• From Belarus, with love: Four young Jews spend month experiencing America

• MacArthur Foundation names 2 Bay Area Jews ‘geniuses’

• Arrested Aryan Nations leader well known to local ADL

• Does ‘curse’ of the Red Sox have anti-Semitic roots?

• After 4 years of intifada, unmitigated terror, tragedy reign

• COVER STORY:
  Jewish storytellers converge to trade their tales

• b’nai mitzvah

• Lectures & workshops

• Film

• Music

• San Franciscan’s quest to Poland turns up relatives — living and dead

• Breaking the sound barrier:

  First U.S. female cantor served when ‘‘it just wasn’‘t done’’

• Future of interfaith:

  New program head has firsthand experience

arts

• ‘Golda’s Balcony’ — longest one-woman Broadway run

• ‘Opposite’ attracts: Jewish musical theater team expects Broadway-bound show

• Cultural ‘disconnect’: At Jewish artists'' panel, insight comes from audience

• Tale of survival returns: Play recounts life of Anne Frank''s friend in Shoah''s shadow

columns

• Celebrity Jews

• Who knew a palm frond and a willow could be so interesting?

• Why we left the jobs we couldn’t wait to have

• Joy of fulfilling mitzvot is itself an act of worship

cook

• New books offer healthy options for Kosher cooking

• Stuffed to perfection

opinions & letters

• Grim anniversary:

  editorial

• TWO VIEWS:
  Who’s the best choice for America and Israel?

• Game during Kol Nidre earns Shawn Green a strike

lifecycles

• Deaths

• b’nai mitzvah

• births

supplements

• The heart and stone of a garden, hidden under a rotting deck

• Planting your garden

• Seeds of learning flourish in B’nai Shalom’s biblical garden